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2 December 2001


Two books debut this week, Terry Goodkind's The Pillars of Creation (Tor) in hardcover, and Dean Koontz's From the Corner of His Eye (Bantam) in paperback.

Terry Pratchett is still #1 on the UK hardcover lists, but slips to #2 on both paperback lists this week.

Last week Rowling resurged; this week it's Tolkien, in various editions. This week's Amazon paperback list has no less than seven Tolkien entries, including the traditional boxed sets of the trilogy, and new editions with movie art covers.

Title NYT
12.09
LAT
12.02
SFC
12.02
USAT
11.29
WP
12.02
WSJ
11.30
London
Times
12.02
PW
12.03
Book
Sense

11.26 stale
Amz
(12.03)
Amz UK
(12.03)
Items compiled from each list 30 15 15 50 10 10 10 15 15 hc, 5 pb 25 10
Fiction hardcovers
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax 34 -6 xxx..   xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   x xxx..
Denning, The New Jedi Order: Star by Star 20 -4 xx   xx   xx   x   x  
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation 9 ++     16 ++   6 ++   6 ++   17 ++  
Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains x xxx   xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx..   x  
Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: House Corrino 28 -1 xxx xxx xxx.. xxx.. xxx..   xxx.. xxx.. x  
James Herbert, Once             x       xx
Jacques, Taggerung 9 -1   15 + xxx..   xxx..   2 = xxx..    
King/Straub, Black House 14 +1 xx 2 + 44 +5 xxx.. x xxx x xxx 12 -3 xx
Pratchett, The Last Hero             1 =       1 =
Rice, Blood and Gold 17 -4 13 -3 xxx x x x   15 -7 xxx 18 -12  
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 4 =   xxx.. xxx..   xxx   -- xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire 1 = x xxx 6 -1   3 +2   -- 4 +2    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 3 =   x xxx..   10 +   -- 9 +    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 2 =   xxx..     4 -2   -- 5 +5    
Salvatore, Sea of Swords 22 -3     xxx   xxx   xx   x  
Tolkien LotR                   14 +  
Fiction paperbacks
Eddings & Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus 31 =             xx      
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen 14 +1     x       8 +2 x    
Harry Potter.. Poster Book 9 +                    
King, Hearts in Atlantis x xxx..   xxx..       xxx xxx xxx..  
Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye 1 ++     11 ++       4 ++      
Perry, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation 7 -1     x       9 +5      
Pratchett, The Truth             2 -1       2 -1
Pullman, The Amber Spyglass xxx             1 ++ xx    
Rowling, Fantastic Beasts... 8 +2   xxx.. xxx..       6 -3 xxx..    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Azkaban 3 = 6 -3 7 = 3 =     9   3 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Goblet of Fire             8        
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Secrets 2 = 5 + x 2 =     7 -- 2 =    
Rowling, Harry Potter.. Stone 1 = 1 = x 1 =     6 -- 1 =    
Rowling, Quidditch through the Ages 7 +1   xxx.. xxx..       7 -3 xxx..    
Sachar, Holes xx     xxx..       4 +1 xxx..    
Tolkien, The Hobbit   7 +2   9 +2       2 +4 2 +1 9 +  
Tolkien, Hobbit/LOTR       15 +3         x tpb 1 +1 mm, 2 +2 tpb  
Tolkien, LOTR       14 +31     6 + 3 ++ 14 ++ tpb 21 + mm, 12 + tpb  
Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring xxx.. xxx..   7 +2     8 + 1 = mm, 15 ++ tpb 1 +1 mm 23 +  
Tolkien, The Silmarillion                   11 +  
Tolkien, The Two Towers               15 ++      
  NYT LAT SFC USAT WP WSJ London PW Book
Sense
Amz Amz UK
This cell color indicates rankings on children's bestsellers lists Italics indicates stale data -- rankings from one or more weeks before

The table compiles SFFH books placing on general bestseller lists. The table shows the current rank of each book and the change since last week are shown, where:
   = same as last week
   + or - with number: difference since last week
   + back on list
   ++ new on list
   x no longer on list (number of x's: weeks off list)

Columns show ranks on lists from, respectively, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, London Times, Publishers Weekly, BookSense, Amazon.com (fiction lists), and Amazon UK (fiction lists). All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats.

Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.  



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